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"Darlin" planning a new home in the octagonal shape. LVF wonders if it is folly to think of it with bacon 50 a pound, flour $15 a barrel and calico $1 per yard. No provisons for travellers in Chattanooga. A clipping in the diary from the October...

1864 presidential election is over & LV is surprised that there is no hue & cry over the election either for or against. She received a letter from Lide. She & family spent the summer at Mackinaw & Cheboygan & returned to Memphis in October. Col....

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in your ear for me the tale of love I would tell were I there, and to teach
you that the burden of my lovely song when far away, is, "Does
someone repeat my name over, and sigh. Oh! I wish he was here - I
cannot write more now. Will...

Germans taken prisoner by the Americans during the drive on the Hindenburg Line at Bellicourt and the Canal St. de Quentin march along a road under guard. The background of the image features buildings which have sustained heavy war damage. ...

Handwritten entry for the date represents the Civil War diary of Rachel Carter Craighead. It addresses the news of Confederate and Federal losses at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing (or the Battle of Shiloh), the Confederate generals killed or...